It means to fall victim to something, such as a disease.
To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in.
amiwiki answers - to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die. amiwiki answers - to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
To succumb is to give in to, to be overwhelmed. Here are some sentences.She will eventually succumb to the disease and die.The army will succumb to our superior forces.I refuse to succumb to your wiles.
To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
In the war the Koreans decided to succumb.
Succumb means to give in to something. An example of a sentence using the word succumb is: When she continued to exist, he eventually succumbed to her will and committed the unsavory task she requested of him.
Eventually, we all succumb to old age
Do not succumb to the great evil in this world!
"She began to succumb to her wounds, and slipped into unconsciousness." "He succumb(ed) to the taunts of the banshee and fell to the cave floor, knowing he would not see the light again."
Succumb
"Surrender" is a word that can mean letting something take control of you.
After 24 hours of playing basketball, the boys finally had to succumb to exhaustion and go to sleep.
burial
An antonym for overcome is succumb.